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No, I will not change your mind.

So I’m pretty much an Apple person now. I have my iPhone, my iPad, my MacBook, Apple Watch, AirPods Max - you get the point.

But this has been the past 5 years or so. Before then I was heavily an Android person. And at the time, I was kind of into Reddit, but then I got (what it was then called) Reddit Sync.

It was absolutely phenomenal. Blew me away. By far the best user experience for reddit I’ve ever experienced.

Eventually I moved to iOS. I tried so many iOS reddit apps, and quite frankly, they all sucked - until Apollo came along. I think you know how popular Apollo is.

With that said, the guy behind it promised an iPad mode and kept promising it until this year he went “yeah actually it ain’t coming anytime soon”. All the while this dude kept nagging people to get his stupid Apollo Ultra subscription, which was incredibly aggressive. Dude really liked the subscription model.

I picked up one of my old Android phones from my mobile dev days (OnePlus 7 Pro for those who care) and opened Sync. Absolutely beautiful, but it failed to load as I deleted my reddit account the moment they announced these API changes.

I went ahead and paid for the lifetime subscription as a way of saying thanks for all the hard work over the years (Sync has been going on for much longer than Apollo and has and supports tablets too!! What a concept!!). ljdawson seemed like a genuinely nice and friendly person who genuinely cared about his app, perhaps even more so than the profits (which is so unbelievably rare).

It was a good run, ljdawson, but you absolutely killed it 🍻

Imagine a bunch of wannabe 4channers got their own mastodon instance.

That’s poa.st

holy crap, I didn’t realise he was responding to a poa.st user.

Definitely should’ve been defederated from poa.st by now…

I have a MacBook Pro which is stock macOS.

Doing software development for nearly a decade, macOS combines that ease of using widely used software tools with the stability of macOS that seems quite rare with Linux (especially in the long term, when upgrading across new OS versions). Also, things like being able to consistently sleep and wake up and my m1’s battery life keeps me on macOS.

With that said, I also have a thinkpad with pop! OS on it. It’s nice, but I have this issue that I can’t alt-tab like I can on windows thanks to gnome. It only alt-tabs the window group, rather than individual windows, and it drives me up the bend.

I don’t think the title is good, but I do think it’s notable to some extent. With people having weird, shitty opinions, it’s nice to see someone who is relatively famous in the tech community for having somewhat sane opinions and being vocal about it.

In my experience, the Linux community has got its own bunch of free speech weirdos who would reject some of these political points (especially the trans position), so I do think in that context it is kind of important.

Several things:

• Owned by for profit company
• Browser engine is dominant
• Said company is in the ad business, so they don’t have the best incentives for privacy
• Said company are well known for pulling stunts to get people using their browser (i.e. using web rendering techniques that is fast on their browser but painfully slow on others)
• Having a monopoly in an area is bad for us users

Meanwhile, I’m glad folks on here are very pro-Firefox as well as not shitting on Chrome users. I was afraid it was going to be thls (except replace “invented Comic Sans” with “uses Chrome”) https://achewood.com/2007/07/05/title.html

Me whenever I see Meta in a difficult spot

Lots of engagement. One of the things that kills communities is people too shy/afraid to say something, and/or they just read posts and not contribute “content” like comments.

One of the smart things Reddit did was gamify the whole posting/commenting system with karma. Sure, it lead to a lot of really stupid and petty online drama, but it helped build the website where people engaged in it more because folks like seeing numbers go up.

I feel like lemmy needs a similar system, but I am aware that it can and will lead to some low quality posts/comments.

It actually makes me realise - back in 2016 when thedonald was constantly making its way to the top of reddit, none of the people at the top did anything.

Now with these API changes, you barely hear about them despite the threads being heavily upvoted.

I look back on that shitshow with even more pennies dropping.

Thank you for your (brother’s) service 🫡

I’ve been on lemmy for about a year, and this is the first time I’ve seen lemmy this consistently active.

It actually reminds me of reddit in the earlier years :')

Valve has made some incredible games and hardware, but it doesn’t mean they aren’t tricky bastards.

Not specifically because of AI, but because Google was creeping me out and the search results were getting worse and worse due to pErSoNaLisEd SeArChEs which turns out is quite crap